Word: costing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon as the increases are granted, rather than having them parceled out in paychecks through the year. Employees like this option because it allows them to use their raises to buy big-ticket items like cars, color TVs and refrigerators sooner rather than later, when they may cost more. But some employers fear that the practice of giving lump-sum raises, if it were to spread, might fan inflation by fostering a buy-now philosophy...
...negotiations on a new three-year contract with the United Rubber Workers this summer, the rubber companies agreed to a significant sweetener in the cost of living adjustment (COLA) provisions. Workers got an advance on anticipated COLA increases; in the first three months of the first year of the contract, for instance, an extra 200 an hour was tacked onto their paychecks, giving some 75,000 workers an extra $600,000 per week in take-home pay. Conceivably, such COLA advances could become widespread; at present 60% of all unionized workers are employed under contracts that have COLA provisions...
Ramig said he will meet Tuesday with Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, to try to get permission to serve alcohol on the train. The cost of the liquor would be included in the train fare...
...exact cost for renting the train is still undetermined, but the assembly will not try to make a profit on it, he added...
...cost to students for a round trip will be $20 to $25. Rosie M. Valencia '82, an assembly member, said yesterday. Amtrak's regular exursion fare to New Haven...